Author Archives: Raghunath

The Rise and Fall of Permanent Fixtures.

Maybe its age creeping up on me as I move on to the wrong side of the 20s (Thanks Neeti!) but there are things from my childhood that I used to take for granted and/ or ignore that I see less and less of nowadays. What were permament fixtures in the landscape of the India [...]

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Reservations, politics and another return to blogging.

The months and weeks of the political circus that is the Indian election season is finally coming to a close. What should be a dignified process of selecting able bodied leaders to run and uplift the country has, as always, turned into a display of exactly why close to 50% of the nation does not [...]

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Hey, it made ME laugh!

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DMC: Pearl Jam – You Are

Lyrics: This broken wheel is coming undone And the road’s exploding But you’re keeping me strong Rolling along with you,… Love is a tower And you’re the key Leading me higher When you let me in Keeping us close,… so close On down the line Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun With [...]

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Reboot?

I thought that I should remember something that I wanted to write about and later realized that I did not remember what I thought I wanted to remember to write about. I remember now that there was something that I needed to remember to ensure that I remembered that I write about something but now [...]

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Kilmer on Poetry

“Poetry is a very subjective and intimate expression. It’s literally your heartbeat. Your rhythm. The song of your soul. It’s superconcentrated. It’s a dense piece of yourself.”

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Erm…

What do you do when you don’t know what to write but you want to? What do you do when the number of drafts in your dashboard make you think of the graveyard of ships? What do you do when all around you is inspiration but for you there is no respite? What do you [...]

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Travel Peeves and General Grumpiness …

Wise people say you should not talk when you are angry. I say screw them. Who the hell do they think they are?? So anyways, as I did a little bit of travelling again (Seoul), I realized that for some reason, nature and the energies around me always gang up against me to make sure [...]

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The Matrix on Windows …

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Heard In The Loo: Theme From The Godfather

I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse?? …. Damn!

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